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How Salvini’s Security Decree Will Criminalize the Sea Rescue Operations

The security decree consists of 18 articles, mainly aimed at regulating the sea rescue operations. In the first article, the reform states that the Interior Minister is entitled to restrict or prohibit ships’ entry or transit in the Italian territorial waters. The article’s—and the whole decree’s—main target is represented by the NGO's ships that seek to save migrants’ lives in the Mediterranean Sea, and that, according to the Law of the Sea, often identify Italy as the first safe harbor to disembark them. However, according to the decree, their entry into the Italian territorial waters can be prohibited, whenever the crime of facilitation of illegal immigration can be presumed.

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Bachelet Says US Detention Centers Could Be Breaking International Law

She [UN human right chief Bachelet] explained that “even for short periods under good conditions,” the detention of children “can have a serious impact on their health and development.” Furthermore, Bachelet stated that “according to several UN human rights bodies, detaining migrant children may constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that is prohibited under international law.” The High Commissioner’s condemnation of the US border detention facilities comes just days after the release of the report by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General. The report called for “immediate attention and action” to the “dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of the children and adults in the Rio Grande Valley” detention centers.

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Sea-Watch 3 Captain Carola Rackete Is a Strong Woman Who Saved Human Beings

On the 16th day, after several appeals to the Italian authorities had gone unanswered, Carola decided to break the naval blockade--and Italian law--and to enter Italy’s territorial waters. When she realized that the Italian Government would not give the authorization to disembark migrants in any case, on the 17th day, in the middle of the night, she also entered Lampedusa harbor. "At this moment the Sea-Watch 3 is entering Lampedusa harbor. It's been almost 60 hours since we declared a state of emergency. No one listened. No one took responsibility. Once more it's up to us, to Captain Carola Rackete and her crew, to bring the 40 people to safety,” the NGO wrote on Facebook.

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Saviano in NYC Doesn’t Give Up: Where the Lies on “Taxis of the Sea” Come From

How did we get here, how did we end up describing the NGOs’ ships as “taxis of the sea”? “We needed to escape from the guilt we used to feel when we saw scenes of desperation,” Saviano claimed. “We also needed to say to our stomach that was twisting into knots, that it wasn’t our fault, that it was only a conspiracy to rip us off, a scheme of the economic elites in order to take new slaves: Beautiful, mighty boys," that can’t be that poor and desperate if they even own smartphones...

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The World Health Organization Drives Change in Transgender Rights

According to Lale Say, Coordinator of WHO’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research, the reclassification will “reduce the stigma” while ensuring “access to necessary health interventions.” Indeed, discrimination is a major barrier to accessing prevention services, HIV testing, treatment and care for transgender people. According to a poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in the US “nearly a quarter [of transgender people] say they have avoided doctors or health care out of concern they would be discriminated against (22%), and 31% say they have no regular doctor or form of health care.” In many countries, the number of transgender people not seeking care or being denied care is higher.

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The Harsh Dispute Between Salvini and the U.N. on Italy’s Migration Policies

The U.N. experts' analysis is crystal-clear: “There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Directive, due also to the time of its release, was issued with the aim of directly targeting the search and rescue operations of the NGO boat Mare Jonio, namely by preventing it from accessing Italian territorial waters and ports.” “We are deeply concerned about the approach taken by the Minister of Interior against the Mare Jonio through these directives, which are not based on, and have not been confirmed by, any decision by the competent judicial authority.”

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BARCA NOSTRA, an Exhibition on Europe’s Migration Crisis at La Biennale

Exactly four years after the tragic shipwreck that occurred on April 18th, 2015, the boat was released on April 18th, 2019, by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Italian Ministry of Defense, to be handed over to the Commune of Augusta through the project BARCA NOSTRA. It was a bureaucratic odyssey riddled with obstacles, to clear the ownership and responsibilities regarding the shipwreck’s uncertain fate, and to prepare the boat for the continuation of its journey.

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Castelnuovo di Porto: The Politics of Scapegoat and the Demand for a Future

What is particularly striking about what happened at Castelnuovo di Porto is the fact that it was an act of unnecessary humiliation towards refugees that represent a positive experience of integration. The fact that people were treated like objects can hardly be seen as an accidental side-effect of incompetence; rather, it is hard not to see it as a deliberate choice, though devoid of any functional purpose.

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